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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
May. 22, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pratik J. Ashar, Mumbai, IN;
Supratim Pal, Bangalore, IN;
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Gold River, CA (US);
Wei-Yu Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Guei-Yuan Lueh, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors comprising register sharing circuitry to receive meta-information indicating a number of threads that are to be disabled and provide an indication that an associated thread is disabled, a plurality of General Purpose Register Files (GRFs), wherein one or more of the plurality of GRFs is associated with one of the plurality of threads and a plurality of multiplexers coupled to the one or more GRFs to receive the indication from the register sharing circuitry and disable thread access to an associated GRF based on an indication that a thread is to be disabled.